Referees at this year’s Club World Cup will wear body cameras and enforce new rules aimed at reducing time-wasting by goalkeepers, FIFA announced on Tuesday, April 8. The body cameras will be introduced on a trial basis following approval last month by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the sport’s global lawmaking body.  Pierluigi…
SHREVEPORT, La. (TCN) — Authorities recently arrested a couple on suspicion of leaving their teen daughter alone in a hotel room for weeks. According to the Shreveport Police Department, on April 2, officers responded to the Royal Inn and found a 15-year-old female victim who had allegedly been “left alone and unsupervised in a hotel…
Inclusion is an inexorable ingredient for national cohesion. It is an ideal that demands deliberate and methodical enactment. It is largely potent, not as an abstract concept, but as the praxis for promoting peace and harmony and holding it all together at the umbilicus. The Tinubu administration has been conscientious and pragmatic about building an…
A “de-extinction” company announced the “rebirth” of the “extinct dire wolf” on Monday. The company revealed the new dire wolves in a video on social media, celebrating the announcement as a “leap forward for science.” In a Monday press release, Colossal Biosciences, which describes itself as the “world’s only de-extinction company,” said the “rebirth of…
The World Bank has placed a significant emphasis on Nigeria’s critical role in shaping the future of Africa, asserting that the continent’s development hinges on Nigeria’s ability to thrive. Dr. Ndiame Diop, the Country Director of the World Bank, articulated this view during a lecture series hosted by the Department of Agricultural Economics at the…
Rapper Slim Thug’s Houston apartment was burglarized Monday night, with thieves making away with jewellery, cash, and other valuables, according to the Houston Police Department.  The break-in was discovered around 11 PM by security personnel at the apartment complex, who noticed that a door had been forced open.  Authorities confirmed that multiple items…
